Children Juries in Six European Cities Elect Dutch Film by Boudewijn Koole
In a truly European vote, 10-13-year-old audiences in Amsterdam, Belgrade, Copenhagen, Erfurt, Norrköping and Turin have elected KAUWBOY by Boudewijn Koole as the winner of the first European Film Academy Young Audience Award.
Having watched the three nominated films on today’s Young Audience Film Day, the young cinema-lovers had the opportunity to discuss the films before electing their favourite. T...
A little more about Serbian Short Film production and Serbian filmmaker Marko Kostić and about his promising career and interesting ideas you can read in this interview. Marko Kostić directed short film Mašinica (The Gadget), a little film that Belgrade film lovers had the chance to see on the last Documentary and Short Film Festival in Belgrade.
- What is the advantage of the short film in Serbia and general?
Distribution options are limited to short film festi...
Following the latest Retrospective of
Slovenian Film in March in Belgrade, Serbia, ever since the 70s, films coming from
Slovenia were representatives of the
Yugoslav black wave film or one way or another, film avant-garde. Slovenian
cinematography was and still is today somehow, closely related to a Serbian
cinematography, but without burden of present Serbian film-a post
civil themes. Slovenian film today may be overburden with social questions of a
coming liberal capitalism be...
Six European cities to participate in Young Audience Day screenings and vote
To celebrate this year’s 25th European Film Awards, the European Film Academy (EFA) and EFA Productions launch a new award for a film addressed to the young audience: The European Film Academy Young Audience Award. To give the new award special attention, it is presented as a separate event.
EFA Chairman Yves Marmion: “It has long been our wish to shed a special light on the younger audience, ...
The 49th edition of the New York Film Festival, a sure sign of the Fall season, is underway, and in its substantially expanded format, there is literally something for everyone at this year’s event. The Festival, which has prided itself on being a boutique as opposed to the bazaar offered at such events in Toronto, Cannes and Berlin (and at New York’s own Tribeca Film Festival) still offers the cream of the crop from those other festival celebrations, with a sprinkling of highbrow c...
The specialty theatrical scene in New York City is about to get a new jolt with the highly anticipated expansion by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, among the city's most prestigious film institutions. The long-awaited Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center is a gloriously modern 17,500 square-foot venue, will house two theaters, an amphitheater and a café, adding a potential for 4 different screens at the same time (including the Walter Reade Theater, the Film Society's current showca...
The 6th press conference of International Film Festival FEST 2010 went by quickly and hosted a distinguish member of the Festival Jury Macedonian Winterbottoms’ muse Labina Mitevska, that spoke about the regulations and criteria of the film jurist and about the importance of Art and European Film. No matter how hard is with film financing, the art house films will be shoot and it will be existing. The best films ever, are often shot with very little money, and even today they set the perfect...
The 33rd Portland International Film Festival will unspool February 11-28, 2010
The Northwest Film Center announces the 33rd Portland International Film Festival (PIFF), its annual cinematic foray of thought-provoking, engaging and entertaining works from around the globe. Over the last 33 years, the Festival has screened diverse and innovative films for thousands of people from throughout the Northwest. This year's Festival will showcase 117 compelling new films, from three d...
"European Distributors: Up Next!" to improve circulation of European films
EFP and the San Sebastian International Film Festival
continue programme for European Distributors
09/07/2009
After a successful launch of “European Distributors: Up Next!” in 2008, European Film Promotion (EFP) and the San Sebastian International Film Festival continue to support emerging European distributors at this year´s festival between September 18 – 21. The aim of the programme is to im...
As the 31st member country, the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) joins European Film Promotion (EFP), the pan-European network of film promotion and export organisations. "Reflecting the diversity of Europe, EFP is pleased to welcome the Macedonian Film Fund as the newest member organisation", EFP's President Éva Vezér declares. "Every new member gives input according to its individual history - and takes advantage of our stable international marketing platform."Last year, the ...
